Ten Holy Mounts of God, an early diagram by J. Edward Cornelius
An Early Diagram by J. Edward Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius was as young as 18 when he flooded notebook after notebook with the Book of Archai images. He was a young man gripped by spirit. Scrawling out the symbolic alphabet in which he would later compose his gnosis, he gave voice to the God Who obsessed him.
 
Genius is madness. Madness is messy. It is not a neat, rational process.
 
You may indeed find in the Book of Archai gems of insight, truth keys, or inspiration. But if you find errors there, they are irrelevant.
 
We published the Book of Archai to display Jerry’s early Genius. We did so because we find ourselves fascinated to witness its fresh innocence. And we did so because we find great pleasure in its Beauty.